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Dibothrosuchus elaphros

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Dibothrosuchus elaphros was named by Simmons (1965). Its type specimen is FMNH CUP 2081, a partial skeleton (partial skull and skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tati, Lufeng (CUP), which is in a Sinemurian terrestrial horizon in the Lufeng Formation of China. It is the type species of Dibothrosuchus.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Dibothrosuchus elaphros Simmons p. 13 figs. 4-7
1986Dibothrosuchus xingsuensis Wu
1993Dibothrosuchus elaphros Wu and Chatterjee
1994Dibothrosuchus elaphros Luo and Wu p. 264
2010Dibothrosuchus elaphros Nascimento and Zaher
2011Dibothrosuchus elaphros Nesbitt p. 41
2013Dibothrosuchus elaphros Irmis et al.
2014Dibothrosuchus elaphros Sertich and O'Connor
2022Dibothrosuchus elaphros Ruebenstahl et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
RankNameAuthor
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Paracrocodylomorpha
—Loricata(Merrem 1820)
—Crocodylomorpha()
genusDibothrosuchus
specieselaphros

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Dibothrosuchus elaphros Simmons 1965
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Invalid names: Dibothrosuchus xingsuensis Wu 1986 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available